Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP
Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watnot!watmath!clyde!rutgers!brl-adm!seismo!mcvax!ukc!reading!onion!minster!martin
From: martin@minster.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Bug in ar.c, and the fix
Message-ID: <543631312.5311@minster.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 24-Mar-87 19:41:52 EST
Article-I.D.: minster.543631312.5311
Posted: Tue Mar 24 19:41:52 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 28-Mar-87 17:19:21 EST
Organization: Department of Computer Science, University of York, England
Lines: 18

Ar(1) refuses to extract a file from an archive which it cannot open
for writing, with the message `can't create <library>'.

This can be fixed by changing line 244 from
  ar_fd = open_archive(argv[2], (show_fl || pr_fl) ? READ : APPEND);
to
  ar_fd = open_archive(argv[2], (show_fl || ex_fl || pr_fl) ? READ : APPEND);

	Martin

usenet: mcvax!ukc!minster!martin
surface:
	Martin C. Atkins
	Department of Computer Science
	University of York
	Heslington
	York Y01 5DD
	ENGLAND